Publications
RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.
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8 Feb 2018
Freedom of Information Follow up Report on Management of Waste in the NHS
Publication Code : 006 683This follow-up report presents findings of a Freedom of Information (FOI) survey on waste management by NHS trusts in England. The survey was conducted by the RCN in spring 2017.
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19 Dec 2017
Disability Passports:The RCN Peer Support Service Guide
Publication Code : 006 598This guide is for employees with impairments and their line managers.
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18 Dec 2017
The UK nursing labour market review 2017
Publication Code : 006 625This is the 2017 report providing a review of the UK nursing labour market, looking at recent data and trends for nursing staff working in the health sector across the UK, drawing out differences, similarities and challenges across the four UK countries.
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20 Nov 2017
Competences: an education and training competence framework for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people
Publication Code : 006302This education and training competence framework for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people was first published in 2005. It has been revised in 2017 to reflect a number of current political and professional issues and initiatives. The framework describes the theoretical and practical competences and overall indicative content for education and training programmes for administering medicines intravenously to children and young people.
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17 Nov 2017
Creating a Strategic Focus to Support the Prevention of Infection
Publication Code : 006602This statement outlines the RCN’s position on priorities for action to support improvements in the preventing infection within health and care settings to accompany revision of the UK strategy on antimicrobial resistance.
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15 Nov 2017
IPC. Information and learning resources for health care staff
Publication Code : 005499Infection prevention and control (IPC) practice is an essential component of health and social care, and policy and guidance is constantly evolving. Research helps to inform the evidence base for this important area of nursing practice. This resource gives you guidance on how to search and find the relevant evidence-based information and guidance you may require to help keep your infection prevention knowledge and practice up-to-date.
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15 Nov 2017
Essential Practice for Infection Prevention and Control
Publication Code : 005940The prevention and management of infection is the responsibility of all staff working in health and social care and is an integral element of patient safety programmes. This updated publication provides important information and guidance on the essential principles of infection prevention and control and highlights why other issues, such as nutrition and hydration, should be viewed as an essential complementary component of nursing practice.
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3 Nov 2017
Managing Unacceptable Behaviour
Publication Code : 006272This new publication outlines how RCN staff, reps and members should approach working with each other. It highlights what steps will be taken when the standards aren’t met; provides guidance for reps who are subjected to unacceptable behaviour; and outlines what support is available to them.
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3 Nov 2017
Understanding Benchmarking
Publication Code : 006333Updated guidance that explains the advantages of benchmarking, provides a model of benchmarking to help get you started and includes an example of benchmarking in practice.
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25 Oct 2017
Healthy Workplace Toolkit for an Agency Workforce
Publication Code : 006120This essential RCN toolkit provides a clear framework for employment agencies and host organisations, both in the NHS and the independent sector, to address the issues identified by the agency nursing workforce and provide a healthy and safe working environment for staff and the patients they care for. The toolkit also supports individual nursing staff carrying out agency work to meet their responsibilities to practise safely.
